Essays on the Microscope / Containing a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes, a General History of Insects, etc., etc.

by George Adams

272. Kerona Calvitium.

R. latiuscula, oblonga, antice corniculis micantibus. Rather broad, oblong, with glittering horns on the fore-part.

The body is rather broad and flat, both sides obtuse, filled with black molecules, and there is a dark spot near the hinder-part, where there are likewise a few short bristles. The interjacent vesicles are pellucid; no hairs on the fore-part, but instead thereof two little moveable horns, and from three to five moveable black points. It is found in the infusions of vegetables.

273. Kerona Pustulata.

K. ovalis convexa, postice altero margine sinuata, utraque extremitate crinita, corniculisque anticis. Oval, convex, kerona, one edge of the hinder-part sinuated, both ends set with hairs, and some horns placed on the fore-part. This animalculum was found in salt water.

XV. HIMANTOPUS.

Vermis inconspicuus, pellucidus, cirratus. A pellucid, invisible, cirrated[127] worm.

[127] That is, furnished with a tuft or lock of hair.

274. Himantopus Acarus.

H. ventrosus, postice cirratus, antice acuminatus. [Plate XXVII.] Fig. 27. Round and prominent himantopus, the hinder-part cirrated, the fore-part sharp.